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MORTON E. CONVERSE, OF W'INCHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 51 1,126, dated December 19, 1893.

Application filed March 14, 1893.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known lthat I, MORTON E. CONVERSE,

of Winchendon, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drums, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

My invention relates to an improvement in drums, and especially to the construction of the head sections of the drum; and the object of the invention is to so construct the head sections that they may be expeditiously and conveniently removed intact from the body or shell of the drum, and whereby when the head sections are removed the heads, chines and flesh hoops will remain as securely connected as when each head section is located upon the body or shell, thus enabling the drums to be dismounted or dismantled for shipment, and enabling the heads to be nested, as likewise the bodies, thereby economizing in space in transportation and providing for the shipment of a number of drums in the same amount cf space that has heretofore been required for the storage of a large drum, and insuring also the various shells or bodies from becoming injured in being transported.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a drum constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the central portion of the drum, all the parts of the drum being in proper position. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the shell portion of a number of drums, showing them in nested position; and Fig. 4. is a vertical sectional View through a number of batter heads, illustrating them as removed from the body and also nested.

The body A of the drum may be made of any suitable or approved material, and when the drums are toy drums the shell or body is preferably made of metal, and the body is re- Serial No. 465,962. (No model.)

inforced at top and bottom ordinarily by a hoop 10, interiorly located. Any approved forni of chine clamp 1l, may be used, and any description of tension cord 12 and togs 13. Both the batter head and the snare head sections. of the drum are of like construction, the batter section being designated as Band the snare section as C. Each head section comprises a chine 14, a flesh hoop 15, a binding or clamping hoop 1G and a head 17. The head may be made of any material ordinarily employed for such purposes, and the material of the head is stretched over the iiesh hoop 15, being passed over the upper and lower surfaces of the hoop and likewise over the outer surface thereof, and thenover the inner surface, the marginal portion of the head material being carried upward to an engagement with the stretched or body portion thereof, as shown best in Fig. 4i, being held in that position by the clamping hoop 16, which hoop is made to engage practically with the inner surface of the flesh hoop as well as with the under face of the head. Thus it will be observed that the iiesh hoop is entirely surrounded by the material of which the head is made, and the upper face of the head, or that portion which is stretched across the upper face of the hoop 15, is brought to an engagement with the under surface of the chine, and the hoop and chine are permanently and securely connected by means of tacks 18, or like fastening devices, being driven through the material of the head and iiesh hoop into the chine.

The clamping hoop 16, is made to tit snugly to the inner contour of the flesh hoop, and therefore need not be tacked to the latter, as the two will remain in engagement when the head sections are removed from the body or Shell section by reason of their close frictional engagement; and when the head sections are located upon the shell or body section of the drum, the upper and lower edges of the shell sections will bear against the under face of the clamping hoops 16 of the head sections, and in this manner the flesh hoops are located properly upon the exterior of the shell, and the shell is not in any manner brought in engagement with any portion of the heads. Therefore, when the body or shell of the drum is made of metal, there is no danger of the IOO head becoming rusted or stained with iron mold when the drum is exposed to .damp atmosphere.

It is evident that the heads ofthe drum may be made by machinery, and in sizes enabling them to be fitted over corresponding sizes of shells or bodies, and that the parts of the drums may be expeditiously and conveniently assembled and secured in place, and at the r same time the flesh hoops will be securely covered without the arduous operation of tucking in the head by hand which is the present practice. It is further obvious that .the head sections ofthe drums may-be nested -for transportation, and likewise the body or shell sections-mag7 be treated in the same manner, thus enabling many drums to be conveniently and safely transported, occupyingonly the space vices securing ,the lflesh hoop to the chine, y

anda clam ping `hoop having a frictional e11- Vgagement with 'the port-ion ofthe :head -passed around theinner face of the esh hoop, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The head section of a drum, consisting of a chine, a flesh hoop located beneath the chine, .a head material passed between the flesh hoop and the chine, and completely around the iiesh hoop to an engagement with the under surface of the body, fastening de vices securing the head material to the iiesh hoop and the flesh hoop to the chine, and a clamping hoop located' upon the interior of the head section and engaging with the inner marginal surface of the head material, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a drum, the combination of .head.sections hayingclamping hoops on the inner sides of the heads proper, and a body o r shell resting against said hoops, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a drum, the combinationof :head sections, comprising chinos, ',iesh hoops secured to the lower ed gc of lthechi-nes, heads secured .to the flesh hoops and chines, and clamping hoops on the inner .side .of the yiiesh hoops, and a body or shell having itsends resting against the clamping hoops, .substantially as described.

MORTON E. CONVERSE. Witnesses:

FRANK B. SPALTER, HENRY S. ALLEN. 

